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The Case Statement
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The case statement is the single most important document that appropriately states your organization’s purpose, methods, values, and budget. It makes your case for support.
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Contributed by:
Neva Coyle
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Congressional Investigation Needed Into U.S. Department of Education Trio/Talent Search Grant Competition
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
In my opinion, this 2011 U.S. Department of Education Trio/Talent Search grant competition was neither fair nor unbiased. It was fraught with inside pressure and political motives. The reviewers were simply pawns in the U.S. Department of Education’s game. And whatever awards will be made will most certainly be reflective of the Department’s plans – not the fair and equitable opinions of the reviewers that the public and applicants believe made unbiased and untainted scoring decisions. A Congressional investigation is needed.
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Contributed by:
Rebecca Shawver
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Am I Wasting Time or Gathering Information?
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Many years ago, after about six months into my first full-time grant development position, my supervisor called me into her office. She told me that I “talk too much.” Months later, my grant proposals won federal, state, and United Way contracts – big contracts, in fact. She wanted to know how I did it....
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Contributed by:
Rebecca Shawver
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Effective Outcomes
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
It seems that one of the biggest challenges grant writers encounter is expressing clear and meaningful outcomes for grant applications and reports.
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Contributed by:
Alyssa Hanada
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Managing Board Meetings: A President’s Checklist - Part 1
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
All boards can use tips from time-to-time on how to lead and manage more effective meetings. In this first of a two-article series ideas are presented to help board chairs (or presidents) do just that, with a check-list of things to think about before the meeting.
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Contributed by:
Lynne Dean
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We’re All Development Officers Now!
Friday, March 30, 2012
A much emailed and referenced article from McKinsey Quarterly by Tom French, Laura LaBerge and Paul McGill, “We’re all marketers now,” stresses the need for commitment from everyone in an organization to fully engage customers.
The authors advocate a total organizational approach to marketing. Quoting the article: “…customers no longer separate marketing from the product—it is the product…In the era of engagement, marketing is the company.”
What about nonprofits?
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Contributed by:
James V. Toscano
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Bad Planning, Misuse of Mission, Contradictions of Cause Marketing?
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Certain specific demographic cohorts flock to the annual swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated each year, presumably to experience nature and the environment up close.
Some of our friends at Nature Conservancy were intrigued with the demographics of these readers, clearly holding the prospect of adding to NC constituency and donors, so they entered into a three-pronged sponsorship of this year’s swimsuit edition with the magazine and a high-end luxury website.
Unfortunately, the deal blew up in their faces....
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Contributed by:
James V. Toscano
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Celebrity‐Charity Relationships: Knowing a Heartache When You See One
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Big donors to charity have always benefitted from the public approval their gifts create. Naming a building or a professor’s chair after a contributor is accepted behavior for churches, synagogues, universities and hospitals; the IRS approves of it. That donors benefit from making a gift contingent on their name appearing on the structure or program is incidental and tenuous. Corporations that sponsor charitable events get this kind of recognition, and the charity is not taxed on the receipt unless it is equivalent to advertising. The question is whether celebrities who contribute their services to put on an event, advertise a cause or share the spotlight with charity in other ways can receive more than public adoration, image building and name recognition for their trouble. Problems arise at the point the celebrity’s interaction with the charity results in more than that incidental and tenuous benefit to the celebrity.
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Contributed by:
Mark Weinberg
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The Nonprofit Board’s Five Primary Fundraising Roles: Part Two
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
This is the second part of an article that explores the ways boards get involved with fundraising. This part explores leveraging connections and the board's role in directly raising money. And, there's a bonus! Read what this experienced author has to say about "give or get" policies!
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Contributed by:
Ellen Bristol
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Busting Grant Myths
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
I like the Discovery Channel show MythBusters. I have often wished there was a similar show dedicated to busting grant myths because there is a lot of misinformation about grants, even from within the non-profit sector.
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Contributed by:
Betsy Northrup
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Too Many Grants!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
When a retiring executive director looked at her organization's budget and its diverse funding streams, she was satisfied. But when she actually measured the time workflow and expense against the overall budget revenues, she gulped in horror. Most of her time was spent writing, securing, and renewing a total of almost forty grants a year....
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Contributed by:
Karen Joyce Williams
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